Author's Note: I wanted to show Chad talking to people on so random besides Sonny and Tawni. You kind of get to see what Chad would be like, if was with a friend. Not really a major chapter.
Chapter 4
Previously on "When I Say No, I Mean Most Definitely":
Tawni stated talking to Nico and Grady, "Sonny said she had feelings for Chad but Chad said he doesn't have feeling for Sonny when he really does but he let his self-esteem catch up with him and convince him to say no…but he actually is like totally in love with Sonny cause he told me."
Chad stared at Sonny behind her at the doorway, with eyes wide with shock. He looked at her with tons of guilt on her face.
"What?" Sonny said, in a breathless whisper.
Part 1
Better Drama
Chad's Point of View
I was in pure, utter shock. Suddenly a saying came to mind…"With one lie, comes a dozen more lies." And I never really understood that saying…people get angry when you lie, but then when you tell the truth they still get angry!!! Like, seriously?! Who made up these rules? And then, if you tell the truth saying that you did lie, people get mad, and it's like, I'm telling you the truth now aren't I? I looked at Sonny, snapping back into reality. I looked at Tawni, and she had a look of fear on her face feeling bad about what she did. She should!! Doesn't she know that she totally just ruined my reputation to Sonny?!
Sonny's head turned slowly to mine. Looking in my eyes, in which I melted, she told me one simple statement that I knew all along. "You lied," she said without the slightest hint of happiness, realizing that I lied about not liking her. She started backing away, with her eyes watering. God, Chad what did you do to her? "I don't know if you lied about liking me or not, but point is…you lied. Period," she looked like she was about to blow my head off.
"Sonny…"I said to her in a sincere voice.
"No!" she screamed at me. "I'm sick and tired of your games, Cooper! One minute your all jerky on me, next your showing me your sweet side! Your so god damn bipolar!! Get out!!" she yelled on the verge of letting her tears out. When I didn't budge to move, she yelled again, "GET OUT!" I wanted to comfort her, tell her the real truth, but there was just so much hate filling the room I couldn't do it. I took a step toward her, with my face extremely hurt as well.
"Get out," she whispered and a small tear slid down her cheek.
I obeyed. I took one last look at her before turning out the door to leave.
Sonny's Point of View
I broke down in front of Chad Dylan Cooper. I couldn't even try to be happy about the fact that he might actually like me. I asked him if he lied, and all he did was lie again…straight to my face…AGAIN!!
The tear slid down my cheek, as he took one last look at me, and turned to leave the room. I quickly wiped it away, getting stronger as I did. Tawni was the first to come rushing over.
"I am so, so, so, so, sorry! I had no idea you were there!" she said to me, honestly meaning it.
I needed someone to confide in, so I really didn't want to be mad at my best friend. "It's fine Tawni!!! It's not your fault. It's his." I said rolling my eyes, as if my heart shattering didn't just happen.
"Whoa!" Nico said.
"Are you okay Sonny?" Grady asked a little concerned.
I hated when people worried over me, so I lied again, "Ya!! I'm totally fine!"
"Chip isn't." I could've sworn I heard Grady mumble.
"Well…"Nico said pausing. "If it makes you feel any better, that was better drama than Mackenzie Falls will ever have!"
I couldn't help it, I bursted into laughter so loud, and they followed after me, laughing too. I love my friends, they were amazing.
Part 2
Tawni and What She Knows
Sonny's Point of View
Tawni and I sat in our dressing room in silence on the couch.
"So…" Tawni began. "Wanna let it out?" she turned to me and nodded, like I had to.
I let out a long sigh. I knew I had to. "I just don't get it!" I blurted throwing my hands in the air. "I asked him, you know when we were talking about the Gilroy interview, if he lied about liking me. And then he told me, in his total sincere voice that he didn't!" I let that out, feeling a little better that I had.
"Well, I don't know if he likes you, but there are strong feelings…" Tawni stated.
"What's that supposed to mean?" I said skeptically.
"Well, maybe he's telling the truth." Noticing the hurt look on my face, she continued. "Maybe it was easy for him to say, because he realized that he doesn't just like you, he loves you."
I waited for Tawni to say she was joking, but she never did. "Wow Tawni," I said dramatically, like Chad does in his acting, with awe at first. "That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!" I said losing all my faking, switching back to complete skepticism.
"Well then!" Tawni scoffed. "No way, on earth am I saying he doesn't have zero feelings for you. And if he does, I'm concluding that those feelings mean so much more, than 'just friends'!" she said spectacularly as well.
"Fine!"
"Fine!" she shouted back at me.
"No!" I whined. "That's me and Chad's thing."
Tawni threw her hands up in the air as she walked over to the mirror saying, "Ugh!!! Sonny you are so in love, it's gonna get rid of my prettiness!"
I know. I thought completely serious.
The worst part of it all was that even though Chad lied to me, I couldn't help but still think about him. "Tawni…"I began, extremely interested. "What exactly did you and Chad say to each other?"
She smiled at me, "Finally you ask!" I kind of giggled, and told her to tell me. "Well, remember when you told me that he needed to talk to me?" I nodded. "He actually wanted to thank me for blocking out what you guys said to each other."
"I don't get it…" I said confused. "Why was it so important that it was blocked out? I mean, he said no, so it's not like everyone would be all 'Wow Chad Dylan Cooper has a heart'."
"Oh, Sonny, Sonny, Sonny," Tawni sighed rolling her eyes. "He didn't want you to get hurt! Because he loves you! And that moment was like, precious, or something to him."
"Um, Tawni, can you just get on with the point where he actually says he likes me?" I said not wanting Tawni to say the same thing over and over again without telling me how she knows he likes me.
"So…um this is where you might get mad…"Tawni started. "I told him not to tell you about the interview, and he agreed." I nodded since I already knew that.
"Tawni, its okay he already told me. Keep going." I said.
"So I kind of told him, that since I did that, he need to tell me something in return…" I nodded again. "I told him I wanted to know what you guys said to each other. He started stalling, he was so nervous! And then I just kind of guessed. I mean obviously! I'm Tawni Hart, pretty and smart!" She cleared her throat serious again.
I really wanted her to get to the point! Ugh, doesn't she see I'm dying inside, not knowing. I wonder how Chad's face looked when all of this was happening…or Chad's deep shade of …blue…beautiful…eyes…
"Anyways," Tawni said interrupting. Thank god she did…I would've started hyperventilating. "I told him, 'You said no, when you really do like her, don't you?' He was stumped of course! And he nodded slowly, looking so guilty…I mean I never thought I'd live to see the day when Chad Dylan Cooper had guilt on his face. So for that Sonny," she turned to me with no faking in her voice whatsoever, "Thank you."
"That's it? He just…nodded." I asked disbelieving.
"Well…that and he said that it was his ego's fault."
"What do you mean?" I asked confused.
"I don't know exactly…" Tawni scoffed. "I'm not a miracle worker…but I am miraculously pretty!" She walked back to the mirror, and started talking to her reflection.
He said no…because of his ego?! What kind of excuse was that? That just makes his ego so much larger than I ever thought it actually was. I scoffed and then Tawni and I headed out to go to rehearsals.
Part 3
It's Amazing How Fro-yo Can Bond People
Chad's Point of View
I was sitting in the cafeteria, not my usual Mackenzie Falls table, since there was no point when no one is in here. It's seven o' clock, and they kept the place open because Meal of No Meal had their live show today, but I wasn't there because of that. I saw some mean guard in front of the fro-yo machine. I walked up to him.
"Hey…"What was his name…Murky? "Murphy." I said proud of myself, that I could still use my charm. "Would it be too harsh to ask if I can have some fro-yo?" I pleaded just the right amount.
"Well… I did like the last episode, "he said sheepishly. Good thing that even though, it was a number one TWEEN show, adults still watch it. "Oh! I guess you could." He said concluding.
I chose chocolate, the color of Sonny's eyes. I looked around and saw that only half of the lights were on, and that a janitor was cleaning with his headphones playing. It was a dull setting. I went back to my seat, thinking once again, about Sonny. Two people behind me started talking.
"Darn it! Murphy's guarding the machine today!" I heard Grady say behind me.
"Hey look, it's Chip," Nico said whispering to Grady. "He looks a little down."
Did they catch that? Did I really look that unhappy? I turned my head towards them, and rolled my eyes, "You know I can hear you right?" I said annoyed.
They ignored that, and sat in front of me. "So, are you okay?" Grady asked nicely. He was being nice? No pranks or anything? I decided to answer truthfully; there was no point in hiding anything since they heard pretty much everything.
"No." I mumbled looking down at my fro-yo.
"Well…" Nico began. "Want to talk about it over fro-yo?"
"How are you guys going to get fro-yo?" I asked. Then I scoffed, realizing they wanted me to get them fro-yo. I thought why not, I'm not in CDC mode right now. I let out a hesitated sigh, "What flavors?" I asked them.
"Seriously?" Nico asked, lightening up his mood. He nodded in approval at me, and I gave him a quizzical look. "You know…"he said. "If you actually did date Sonny, I wouldn't mind that much." What was this…approval?! I almost scoffed, but let it go and nodded smiling weakly; that was my thanks.
"Now…what flavors?" I asked smiling, glad I might have some friends.
Grady and Nico looked at each other, thinking the same thought, as they both said, "VANILLA!"
I chuckled to myself. I went up to Murphy. "So…Murphy," I paused for second. "Do you think I could have two vanilla fro-yo cups?" I asked with a slight puppy dog face.
Murphy glared at the boys behind me, and then turned back to me rolling his eyes. "Fine." He gave in.
I took the vanilla yogurts back to the table, where they sat. "So…" I began. "What are you guys doing here this late? Meal or No Meal?" I smirked…more in a nice way.
They looked at each other. "Darn it! I didn't know that was on today! We could've gone and seen the show!" Grady whined.
"We're having a sleepover at the prop house." Nico said rolling his eyes, ignoring Grady.
"They allow that?" I asked curious, taking another bite of my chocolate fro-yo.
"Well, Grady and I are best friends, and the prop house is our favorite spot. Marshall didn't mind." Nico told me.
"Huh, makes sense. I mean why not? You work here, why not sleepover and wake up for work tomorrow?" I said to them.
We talked for a while about our favorite video games. I had no idea they were into the same ones as me! We talked about their show and they talked about mine, both admitting to watching it. Haha, who wouldn't watch me? But it was embarrassing at first to admit to watching their show, but then it got normal and it didn't matter.
"What's your favorite sketch Chad?" They asked me.
"Well, I liked the Garry & Larry, and the Wicked Witch of the Web. Those were hilarious," I said laughing just thinking about them.
"Umm Chad?"Grady said nervously.
"Yes, Grady?" I asked with a small glare. I told them I knew their names, it wasn't really a big deal.
Nico and Grady must have twin telepathy or something because Nico spoke next, "What are you going to do about Sonny?"
I looked down, dreading the question. "I have absolutely no idea." I replied to them sadly.
Author's Note: Told you it wasn't really a major chapter! I just thought it was cool to see Chad kind of…normal. =]
